Word: worth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Burns first went to work under Truman, the world was in turmoil. Once she worked at her switchboard for 40 days without a break. But it was worth it when Truman called one night, feeling lonely. Bess was away. Margaret had sailed for Europe. "Get me Margie," Truman ordered. Burns affirmed the request but was not sure just how quickly she could comply, since the President's daughter was two days out to sea. Margaret Truman was raised on a ship-to-shore connection in ten minutes. When the conversation ended, the President rang Burns back...
...psychologically battered Crimson will not see action again until February, so perhaps with some rest and relaxation, not to mention lots of practice, the team will be prepared to play 40 minutes worth of winning basketball. HARVARD FG FT REB A PF TP Mannix 1-5 0-0 1 0 1 2 Coatsworth 3-4 2-2 1 1 4 8 Allen 2-8 2-2 4 2 1 6 Harris 4-9 0-0 4 0 3 8 Hooft 1-8 2-2 4 1 4 4 Mills 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 0 Taylor...
...trust and retrieve from this argument the photographs themselves: the best of them -- two pictures of clothes-lines, a glass-topped table, a couple of porches, and one, in the Harcus Krakow gallery, which is merely a bare clean plane of water, seem poignantly vivid, simple, vestigial. They are worth seeing...
...worth considering how a seemingly pedestrian, and certainly non-artistic, purpose--giving unemployed people a job--fit into the results of the Project. Perhaps this explosion of creativity, and the Big Names that came out of it, had something to do with the way the basic need for relief--both in the Project itself and more generally in the nation--tempered artistic self-centeredness, even arrogance, to some extent...
...Collins, a state representative in Georgia "come in here and pay $1,500, $1,800 or even $2,000 an acre for land that, even with inflation, should not cost more than $800." Iowa Congressman Tom Harkin warns that the oil-producing nations, which sold the U.S. $45 billion worth of petroleum last year, "could buy the whole state of Iowa, every acre of farm producing land, with just 394 days of oil production...